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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Italy’s Decolonization: Multidirectional Memories of Empir
e’s End
DESCRIPTION:Scholars have typically characterized Italy’s decolonizati
on as abrupt and having little resonance in the peninsula at
the time or subsequently. In this paper\, I challenge this i
nterpretation by demonstrating the visible and deeply felt i
mpacts of repatriation by Italian settlers to the metropole
at the time of events and the continued\, if selective\, visib
ility of these experiences in public debates during succeedi
ng decades. In particular\, I examine films and novels\, arena
s for which most scholars (with notable exceptions\, e.g. Ben
-Ghiat and Baratieri) posit an explicit silence about imperi
al defeat and repatriation that instead become displaced ont
o other themes. Re-reading such cultural artefacts\, I argue\,
raises the possibility of what Michael Rothberg has deemed
the work of multidirectional memories\, “subject to ongoing
negotiation\, crossreferencing\, and borrowing.”
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